Jamie Haskell, awarded a CEEH doctoral scholarship at the Courtauld Institute
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The scholarship has been awarded to Jamie Haskell, whose research interests lie in the social, political, and sensory functions of the art and architecture of medieval Spain, with a particular focus on cross-cultural encounters and artistic practices in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Her thesis at the Courtauld Institute of Art will offer a new approach to marginal imagery from Northern Spain during this period, focusing on four case studies including a manuscript, a painted ceiling, a set of cloister capitals, and a series of carved plaster figures. This project will provide a comprehensive approach to the significance and function of marginalia, and propose a new perspective on the visual culture of northern Spain in this period, which is not limited to a single kingdom, religious group, or medium.
This project is based off her research for her MA dissertation, which explored the meaning, function, and art-historical context of the marginal images of the Cervera Bible, a thirteenth-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript made on the border of Castile, Aragon, and Navarre.